For all those wondering when a new version will be coming, this should be a welcome post...
I've been very busy lately with school (I go to Berkeley, after all ;-) and I've had to put development mostly on hold. I've fixed a few bugs here and there, but not enough to warrant a release.
After the semester ends, I hope to get a bugfix release out first (sometime in the first week of January) and then finish up 1.0 features, including:
- Sorting by Anything (preferably drag-'n-drop too)
- RSS Feeds
- Sub-albums
- selective EXIF data display
- Complete metadata (dates, places, etc.)
The expected time for the 1.0 release is mid-January, but could be as late as February. As usual, no promises or implied warranty ;-)
I am looking for developers. Post here if you're interested. I'm only looking for the best and brightest (not just PHP K0derz), so be prepared to prove yourself.
Also see this thread for discussion of way-future ideas.
Zenphoto
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- I use the Toxi shema. With a structure in tags (parent/childs)
- It could be nice to use javascript in admin panel to add or remove a photo for a tag. Drag and drop
- "Albums" could be removed and remplaced by tag structure generated with folder structure.
mail: superdevy#gmail.comMy uni work not withstanding (I have what is potentially a fairly heavy team project to do over the next 4 months) I'd be very interested in helping this project develop further -- What skills are you looking for beyond PHP/SQL/CSS/Javascript?
One of the things I'm hoping to see come about is a way to include ZP libraries/functions into non-ZP pages (ie: the rest of the site, or a blog) to allow easy thumbnail pictures of custom sizes which link through to the image page or gallery (eg: http://www.chateaucolombier.com/ -- don't expect much of the actual gallery, it isn't yet styled).
There are more things, but they're all sort of swimming around aimlessly in my mind, so I'll regurgitate them when they solidify a bit more.
HPKA - I won't get rid of the album/folder relationship. I like it too. Tags/categories/etc will only be an addition. I still have to figure out how exactly.
dom - Thanks for the offer, do you have an e-mail address where I can contact you?
Tristan: I replied to your mail with some files.
I have seen ZenPhoto on BerliOS
This tool is very useful for multideveloper project. So is it possible to use it ? There is actually no file in the CVS !
HPKA: About suppression of albums, I propose to remplace them by a tag hierarchy : each (sub)folder is associate to a (sub)tag, generated automatically. Album is a Tag linked to a Folder.
I have no experience of programmation in Javascript, so I don't know how to use AJAX and others Drag'n'Drop possibilities. dom could work on admin tag interface ?
Have you any suggestion on my tag functions ?
Keep up the good work, rest assured 1.0 will be on my gallery as soon as it arrives.
My time is fairly stretched at the moment, but I should be wrapping up development on my current big freelance project in the next week or two.
rbeels(at)student.pnca.edu
I'm very interested in helping out with this project. My day job title is Chief Architect and i've been doing this sort of things for years. Ping me for more info if you want.
When do you think the svn repo will be place?
Sorting, sub albums and RSS feeds is where I think I can help.
Todd
Check out my dev gallery at
http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto
Admin login: admin/password
If you log in, you'll see a new drop down in the album edit page, and a new album sort page link at the top. You can also get to the sort page from the main album view, if you're logged in.
So.. this is still early, be gentle. The workflow might change (perhaps quite a bit!), but the plumbing is there. And I might make a sortable theme. Comments/feedback greatly appreciated.
Also, plz don't take the p*** at the gallery. You can play, but don't ruin it for others by making me take it down.
If this is known, please ignore
I'm running FF 1.5 w/flashblock and adblock extensions and while I can reorder them visually, when I click "Save", it says that the album order has been saved but the visual changes reset to their previous condition (ie: not actually saving the changes).
Wasn't sure if that was intentional for testing purposes or not, or if something is fubar'd on my end somehow.
Either way, great implementation and looking forward to running the next version
The drag and drop album sorting is *extremely* nice. Well done.
Just a thought - can we have the same functionality for sorting the gallery order as well?
Keep up the good work!
SuperDevy - sources are checked into the berlios repo. If you want bleeding edge stuff, check every few days. FYI: update.php is not done, but contains the sql you'll need if you wanna take it for a test drive.
syndromes - make sure that Manual is selected from the Album edit page. When I just checked it was set to Title. I guess a shortcoming of the dev site is more than one person could be playing at the same time!
simon - yep! That's the plan. Now the plumbing is in, I have a few things I need to wrap up on this. But gallery sorting is definitely planned.
If I could offer up a suggestion as for usability, I think it'd be more intuitive to have the sort order button also displayed on the page where you are actually doing the draging & droping of images (for dotes like me haha)
Regardless, thanks to EVERYONE involved w/zenphoto. Good stuff!
syndromes: thanks for the feedback. Good idea, I'll take a look at it.
I would love to try the new features.
thegirlinthecafe -- there's still not much development going on, so it's not quite worth it. I'll make sure to release more often.
Check out my dev gallery at:
http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto
Admin login: admin/password
Previous caveats apply: No p*** taking at site. UI and workflow maybe subject to change.
Comments/feedback appreciated!